Arab world
Arab literary world mourns Palestinian poet Samih Al-Qasim
Cairo and Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Arab literary figures in Egypt and Lebanon paid tribute to the great Palestinian poet Samih Al-Qasim, who died on Tuesday at the age of 75 at Safed Hospital in Israel, after a long battle with cancer. Qasim was a prominent Palestinian poet whose works, like th